For anyone that doesn't know how great it is to live in Cajun Country, let me just say that you are missing out on a very GOOD TIME, cher.  Cajuns are fortunate to have thousands of inland waterways, which give us access to fishing, boating, water sports, and the many other things that one can enjoy on the calm waters of the numerous bayous.  Delicious foods are plentiful from our bayous, rivers, and the Gulf of Mexico, including blue crabs, shrimp, bass, catfish, alligator, and oysters.  But, the most cherished delicacy, I think most cajuns would say, is our Louisiana Lobsters (crawfish).
 

Acadia, was the first French colony in North America in 1604.  In the beginning, the first French to arrive were mostly craftsmen and soldiers.  Later, mostly farmers settled in Acadia and the people were known as Acadians which was later shortened to Cajuns once they were settled in Louisiana.

In the 1700's, the French Acadian people were forced out of Nova Scotia by the British because they would not swear allegiance to the King of England and refused to give up their Catholic faith.  They were loaded on ships and forced to many other lands.  Some families were separated, never to be re-united.   Also, as in the poem," EVANGELINE", by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, young people in love were separated from each other because of the exile.  Some sources claim that half of the Acadians died during the expulsion.  Many settled in Massachusetts, South Carolina, New York, Maine  and Pennsylvania.
After many years and different lands about three thousand of the Acadians settled in Louisiana.  This new homeland could not have been more different than Nova Scotia; but, these spirited French people made the necessary adjustments and  acclimated to their new environment and survived.  Not only did they survive,  they developed a new cuisine that is know worldwide, CAJUN COOKING.  Their french cooking had to change because of the different food supply which required cooking different things in different ways.  So, out of the heartaches and hardships of being forced from their homeland, a magnificent way of preparing food has come about and is enjoyed today by people from all over the world.  This is a small silver lining on a very dark cloud in history.
 

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